Depiction of Beaivi by Ernst Manker. Scanning, cleaning up minor imperfections in the reproduction and removing the numbers was made by Tor Gjerde at old.no; Christopher Forster made the PNG images white background transparent using ImageMagick on GNU/Linux.
Ernst Manker. Scanning, cleaning up minor imperfections in the reproduction and removing the numbers was made by Tor Gjerde at old.no; Christopher Forster made the PNG images white background transparent using ImageMagick on GNU/Linux. · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Beaivi

Sámi · deity · mythic · deity

Sámi sun deity and mother of life, centre of the noaidi drum; received white-animal sacrifices at midwinter to bring back light and fertility. Secondary attestation.

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